The Khan Sheikoun Show Was Trump’s Production

The “chemical attack” at Khan Sheikoun was fake and a show, though some people in there were probably real victims of war. This video for example, of doctors and patients in emergence roomswas theater, taken over a longer time period. The main presenter was a well-known Takfiri but with links to British services. The whole show was perfected, by specialists one would think, to fit for U.S. screens. The male “victims” were clean shaven, despite living in al-Qaeda land. They even had two blond “Syrian” kidsin there (vid) to convince the racists that “revenge” was needed.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams, one of the few who understood Trump’s persuasion style and predicted his win, remarks:

It is almost as if someone designed this “tragedy” to be camera-ready for President Trump’s consumption. It pushed every one of his buttons. Hard. And right when things in Syria were heading in a positive direction.
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I’m going to call bullshit on the gas attack. It’s too “on-the-nose,” as Hollywood script-writers sometimes say, meaning a little too perfect to be natural. This has the look of a manufactured event.
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So how does a Master Persuader respond to a fake war crime?He does it with a fake response, if he’s smart.

The response by the U.S. was not completely fake but as small as it could be. The base was warned and had been evacuated. All movable and valuable stuff had been taken away. The attack was even smaller than planned. Russia says only 23 out of 59 cruise missiles hit the base. The others were shot down by air defense or diverted by Electronic Counter Measures. The Pentagon insists that all 59 hit. But the pictures and video from the base only show damage to 11 aircraft shelters. Additionally one radar, one missile launcher and a fuel depot were hit. That effect is too small for 59 impacts. The base was in use again 12 hours after the strike. The attack on it was not really serious.

Adams makes it look as if Trump did not sign off on the whole stunt before it happened. As if it was made for Trump’s consumption. Why does he think so? Does he believe the CIA bureaucrats would not ask for a direct order from the president before launching such a risky operation? The pictures and scenes were not constructed for Trump’s consumption. They were constructed for consumption by the “western” public. They followed Trump’s persuasion style. The same style he used during the campaign and that let him win. Trump had several reasons to create such an incident. This was a stunt to his liking. It was his production. The blond children allowed for his Beautiful babies were cruelly murdered … punch line. Trump proudly produced and presented to you: “Trump the President”.

The whole show was designed to let Trump look strong and presidential and to get rid of the “Russia Gate” nonsense the neocons ran against him. The prospect of stopping those attacks was an offer he could not refuse. Here a tweet of mine sent on the evening before the attack was launched:

“Russia Gate” is – for now – forgiven and forgotten. The NeverTrump-ers laud the strike and want more of them, ever more war and “regime change” in favor of al-Qaeda’s rule.

More strikes may well come. The precedent has been established. Whenever al-Qaeda in Idleb comes under pressure and needs help we will see another fake “chemical attack”. Will Trump follow up on those? Or will he manage to set aside the outrage that will follow such “attacks” when it does not fit his plans? Was this a one-time show? Or will Trump serialize it?

The open Syrian, Iranian and Russian response will be an intensification of the operations in Idleb. They will smash the “rebels” there by air and push more troops into that direction. The Russian organized flight coordination over Syria has been called off. Belgium already said its airforce will no longer take part in any U.S. “coalition” operation over Syria. Others will follow that example. An asymmetric response elsewhere will follow later. U.S. forces in the wider region better watch their backs.

Some people have wondered why the Chinese criticism of the attack at the UN Security Council or during Xi’s meeting with Trump was rather mild. The Chinese believe that the best that can happen to them is a United States bogged down in further Middle East calamities. If the U.S. is busy in Iraq, Yemen and Syria it will have fewer capacity to mess up North Korea or seek a conflict over this or that atoll in the South China Sea. I can not blame them for that position.

Bonus: A truly journalistic highlight in U.S. news coverage of our time is this recommendation by CNN:

Do it! Be informed! Follow the 7 year old daughter of a Syrian Takfiri in Turkey. She can not understand, speak or write English but knows the depth of international relations. Her producers will let her look more intelligent that Tapper will ever be. (For background on that M.I.T./MI-6 child exploitation see here.)

The U.S. notified the Russian military in Syria before the attack because it had personnel and helicopters at the base in a separate area that the Tomahawks didn’t hit. One of the U.S. officials said the Pentagon had no intelligence indicating that the Russians tipped off Syria to the looming attack.

The Trump administration has described the attack as “proportionate.” An example cited by defense officials: Runways at the airbase weren’t cratered to make them unusable.

There are a number of pics in different articles floating around the net, some showing the father before the twins are buried, some showing the father after the twins are buried.
Seems to be something odd about the two pics. Just cant quite put my finger on it.

I agree with your assessment about China to a degree. What will pull China into the fray will be its relationship with Russia, IMO. They can only let the US go so far before the threat is to them as well as the Russians.

I suspect that XI was a bit miffed with the Syria attack while he was in the US but is too good a politician to let it show. That said, I can’t see this Trump carnival going on like this for more than another 6 months before the international hammer falls on the US and what is left of her acolyte nations.

Well, he received a clear message from the Navy.
Next time he issues a command which could result in sure destruction of their ships and death of the crew, the next tomahawk will go right up his lard ass.
Now he knows that they are not his monkey wrench, willing to die for Glory of The Emperor Bigus Dickus. They want to go safely home, retire and live happily thereafter like the rest of us deplorables.
Thank God US Navy had a smart, rational counterparts who got it, so damage this time was below retaliation threshold. But, as Jimmy iPhone said, it was just one inch below.
As we would say, ово је било за пицину длаку синко.

I believe Trump wants to avoid an embarrassing impeachment trial and he wants to recoup the monies he personally spent on the election and make more money. It appears the CIA and MI6 now have personal information on Trump which could lead to a move towards impeachment by a bipartisan House gropuing. Paul Craig Roberts wrote last year the Pentagon would “maneuver Trump into position”. I believe this is what happened. The CIA has the goods on Trump and his family. They are in a position to black mail him and I think that is what happened. Call it what you may, Russiagate or whatever, but I think a SILENT COUP TOOK PLACE LAST WEEK and that the Pentagon has now taken over. This is supported by the fact that US and “coalition” bombings in Syria have stopped it is reported. This goes way past the military attack on the base. This is first a 180 degree shift in Trump’s proclaimed foreign policy. And second, the Hillary doctrine now being implemented. This goes past simply avoiding “Russiagate”. China’s overriding concern is that the US doesn’t attack them.

I had read the Scott Adams piece as well as opinion here. I later questioned the whole affair at theconservativetreehouse.com in a comment on a post about the US strike on Syria. What happened? I was banned and the post removed of course. What a bunch of sycophantic cowards over there.

I think Scott Adams analysis of the event rings true as does the analysis of “b”. This may lead to the destruction of Syria or it may not. I hope that Trump is not just another civilization killer — but he may be.

The dust has yet to settle, but this strikes me as posturing by Trump. The Russians were tipped off, the base was empty, and the control tower and runway spared. The base operational a mere 12 hours later.

In my eyes this leaves us two possibilities; posturing or incompetence. The former bring much more likely.

So what’s next? Tillerson just announced a ‘new strategy’ for North Korea following meeting with the Chinese. What possibly could that mean besides increased belligerence and brinkmanship?

While the Syria strike has stirred up the R2P crowd, will Trump move the circus east in a ‘pivot to Pyongyang’?

I agree it was a stunt, I even doubt 59 missiles were used. But even so, the tensions are rising, this is not just another TV-show, that’s the real world and not only will it evoke a russian response, it dit set Tronald on the neocons’ path. Tronald is the tricked. From now on, they will push him further and further and he will follow lead not having another solution at hand. The Zauberlehrling fucked up once and forever.
I intend to misuse this forum to put online a commentary I made on ARD-Tagesschau which was blocked (in german). I hope you do not mind.
‘Zuerst einmal; die Berichtenden sind keine Aktivisten. Sie nehmen an einem Krieg teil.
Der Angriff auf den syrischen Luftstützpunkt war ein Schlag ins Wasser. Unabhängig davon, ob man den Russen glaubt, wieviele Raketen den nun eingeschlagen hätten; der Flughafen war schon Stunden nach dem Angriff wieder in Betrieb, und – noch wichtiger – es gibt nicht die geringsten Anzeichen, dass dort chemische Kampfstoffe gelagert hätten. Dutzende, auch westliche Journalisten waren / sind dort und finden nichts. Experten des OPCW könnten das verifizieren. Stattdessen haltlose Behauptungen, Drohungen. Man kann nur rufen; haltet ein, das ist ein Irrweg, der letzten Endes ins Verderben für alle führt.’

One good thing that may come of this is that the the US might find it difficult to provide air cover for their land grab in Syria. Be interesting to see Russian MoD announcement when extra air defence gear is set up in Syria.

The idea of Israel is to create a splited Syria. From North-Iraq a state Kurdistan should extent to North-Syria to the Mediterania. So this will be the path for a Gas-line from Qatar to the Meditarenia.

So Putin told Erdogan to interfere till Al-Bab. And Netanjahu was shot dead.
The whole plan was stopped. Because Israel would have to fight Turkey and Erdogan. So Israel wants Erdogan dead.

But now Trump fakes Israel and Saudis, who perhaps financed the 59 tomahawks.

“The base was warned and had been evacuated. All movable and valuable stuff had been taken away. The attack was even smaller than planned. ”

Don’t miss that 15 people have been killed. The attack was so “small” because of Russia. The US can’t kill hundreds of Syrians without Russian response. If they do it, there will be a big escalation. I think Trump is working according to Israeli plans. Syria, Iraq, Turkey must be partitioned. Kurdistan will be created. Israel wants to atomize all its neighbor countries. Small countries are weak, so Israel wants small countries around its borders. That’s the plan.And one important thing: Trump lost a lot of his supporters by that move so it was not just a theater it was for real.

This was the last false-flag “chemical attack” in Syria. These things simply don’t work as intended. Even worse, they reliably boomerang right at their sponsors. Trump’s electoral base feels betrayed and is absolutely furious – and if he manufactures even one more of these “beautiful babies” episodes, his chances at re-election will drop below zero. Any honest poll would register collapse in his already tentative support yesterday. Syria will be forgotten for awhile.

The significance of Russia suspending de-confliction is double-edged. US and possibly Israeli aircraft don’t have to stay out. If anything, they just have to strike where the Russians are not. Don’t know the status of US advisors around Manbij, but any contact surface would do to justify a series of one-offs. Turmp’s on a roll, or maybe a bagel.

Shadow brokers are interesting. Hacked NSA at a time when US were bragging how far in front of everyone else their cyber capabilities were. Would have put a damper on things for the US keyboard/cyber warriors.
Somewhat like the surprise calibre missile launch from little boats on the Caspian.

Scott Adams is a brilliant cartoonist. I’m sure he’d find the parallel to the corporate principle that as a manger you don’t get respect until you fire someone. In presidential politics it’s until you kill someone. Farty-poop Zakaliar had it right, Trump just became POTUS. How thin the veil of hypocrisy. Chelsea and Ivanka are buds, are they not?

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For peoples still being confused about TheShadowBrokers and Russia. If theshadowbrokers being Russian don’t you think we’d be in all those U.S. government reports on Russian hacking? TheShadowBrokers isn’t not fans of Russia or Putin but “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” We recognize Americans’ having more in common with Russians than Chinese or Globalist or Socialist. Russia and Putin are nationalist and enemies of the Globalist, examples: NATO encroachment and Ukraine conflict. Therefore Russia and Putin are being best allies until the common enemies are defeated and America is great again.”

Russian humour :-))

Now is the stuff from 2013 as the New York Times claims or more recent.

thanks b.. good questions and conjecture on your part.. i think the wheels are coming off the empire myself, and a rocky ride is in store… trump doesn’t have as much power as some believe and on some level is forced into making decisions not in his own or anyone’s best interests.. that is how i see it.

i agree the attack doesn’t look serious. but when you are playing chess with the war party – good luck with that! interesting developments @16 in line with my view ‘wheels coming off the machine’.. i honestly think this is the main ‘take away’ i get from all this.

@22 stumpy… i tend to agree with you on that.. however, that would imply bringing out into the open what many have known for a long time – regime change at any cost – definitely a fuck syria built into it thanks usa-israel-ksa-turkey – for sure..

Hey stumpy @22 there appears to be more to the suspension – “The reason for that decision by the way is that the Russians almost certainly feel that the US used information provided by the Russians through the hotline to determine where Russian military personnel are posted in Syria. In that way the US was able to strike at Sharyat air base knowing there were either no or very few Russian personnel there. The Russians would see no reason to ‘help’ the US carry out more air or missile strikes on Syria by providing them with that sort of information in future, and they have now taken the necessary steps to ensure that that information is no longer provided.”

Sorry b but that’s just another fantastic conspiracy theory you are peddling. I just disagree with you in this case which I rarely do.

Well, the same people who just recently reassured us that Russian have full control over Syrian airspace, have faced some reality.

Now, we suppose to believe another unbelievable conspiracy theory that Russian air defenses, missiles and electronic warfare purposefully let 23 missiles through to destroy a little bit of a Syrian base so Trump can call it success and go home free of CIA blackmail?

Did we turned here on MOA to absurd Trump-Putin conspiracy peddled by MSM claiming that this false op to please CIA and make Trump be loved again while improving relations with Russia?

What a nonsense. I am sorry but I am not buying it. The facts are against such an attempt to further confuse the real issues and facts we are facing.

It may be because in part, some believed too much subconsciously in Trump utterances for peace in Syria and his phony anti-terrorist stance (while peddled Safe Zones) what have been divorced from reality of facts since he took the office. I will not list them since b himself also pointed them out before.

But still some were shocked by Trump turn around in 48 hours into full fledged neocon equal to Hillary, but only because they live in a fantasy land ignoring the fact that Trump presidency has ended after only 24 days (Flynn firing) in office and all hated Bannon being fired, likely for opposing this madness of war against Syria, especially Bannon being connected to Christian political right that whole hardily supports Assad as a sole defender of Christians in Syria.

So what happened? Here is my, much more likely scenario.

There was no (actionable) early warning sent to Russians or they sent misleading warning (wrong location) over official flight de-conflicting channels as it happened in Deir-Ezzor last year .

In fact the scenario was likely the same as it was last year under Obama with killing 62 Syrian soldiers near Deir-Ezzor by US allies in coordination with ISIS offensive, so it was done in this very recent attack clearly coordinated with ISIS offensive in the area.

Why 23 US cruise missiles went through and the rest failed. I speculate it could be a combination of two:

One, SS400 batteries detected attack before first cruise missile left US ships, and while trying in vain to de-conflict the situation, in parallel they called Kremlin for permission to knock them out, it was night and it took few minutes for Putin to make decision, remember there is no hotline between WH and Kremlin anymore as it was used thankfully during cold war to deal with such events.

Finally since de-conflicting channels were dead Putin ordered to shot them out of the sky but it was too late for some US missiles since Russians did not deploy entire multilayered AMDS system as they do at home to be able to handle cases of such as delay of decisions.

Warning was although given to Syrians and Russians (alert everywhere) at the time of US missile launch so anything that could move likely escaped.

Another likely scenario is that most of those US missiles that supposedly strayed from course were malfunctioning on their own, in fact that’s why they were probably launched to get rid of them for almost $2 million each or some of them really targeted something else and failed or were knocked down or Russians did not disclose where they fell for security reasons.

I believe that such a scenario is closer to reality than the fantasy of the b.

here hair hare here.
anyone suggesting that this was hoax,false flagging,gladio ganging counter gang strategy of tension hagel hegalian and his thesis is
antisemite indeed.
i always find with cases like this we need ignore facts and go with impulse emotion let heart rule.
let the news anchor and are great leaders emote.
the tears and sadness is real for real.
why would trumped lie his son boy man on the ground chabad kurshner has all the intel for news truths.
my fallow americains just believe
in oded yinon mappa
it is for the best

no regime change in Syria. Russian entry into Syria was the beginning of the end for the US.
It’s a long game, but by the time this is over, the US empire will have collapsed. That is if they do not do a takfiri suicide bomber thing and loose off some nukes, then the US will simply cease to exist, along with a good part of the world.

The day hasn’t been a total waste since Trump has been declared ‘Presidential’ for his actions – by those who bring you fake news. Who knows? Who knew? Stick a f**k into Trump, he’s done.

** = (uc) or (or), your choice, make wisely or with appropriate protection.

I seriously doubt Trump will have another SCoTUS appointment after international war crimes are publicly charged over Syrian attack. Remember in 2018 – return NO incumBENT to national office (and most State offices as well).

Trump campaigned for 18 months for ‘America First’ and against ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. That all changed because he saw a picture.

The deplorables are pissed. Americans are in no mood for this kind of political betrayal. We don’t need ME oil!!! WTF are we doing there?

All Trump had to do was attack the rush to judgement of ‘fake news’ media. He didn’t do that.

The quickness of Trump’s lethal response makes it appear that it was pre-meditated/coordinated. Strangely enough, the fake “sarin gas” production seems to have been set-up to coincide with an anticipated attack on the warehouse. And an ISIS attack seems to have been coordinated with the tomahawk strike. Too many coincidences.

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So it was all a stunt, a gig, for fun, to fool everyone… so when bombs and jihadis rain on Damascus, will it still all be a stunt? The article makes the same assertion as Thierry Meyssan but for me this is all just refusing to accept the facts that lay bare. Those facts are that the foreign policy of the US changes 0%, no matter who’s sitting in the presidential seat. The US elections are a farce that only elect a rubber stamper. Countries are attacked and destroyed regardless. Another fact is that even if Trump was really in charge, despite what everyone had hoped and thought, his foreign policy is far more aggressive, completely disregards the UNSC and supports the terrorists the same way as the previous administration did. But again, if Obama or Hillary (we came, we saw, he died, orgasm) Clinton were in charge, the same course of events would manifest itself.

The advance warning is actually a joke. For one the launches are detected thus a warning is sent out anyway by the belligerents to its assets. It also prevents the Russians from using their own soldiers as human shields (Syrian soldiers are completely discardable it seems demonstrated by the 7-10 who died) that would provoke a far stronger Russian response because if they were warned up front, why would they not have moved their troops out of harms way. That would blow up in Putin’s face big time so the advance warning is not what it seems. Now it will be knock-knock ‘missiles are coming’ and one military site after the other is destroyed. (If all the missiles would have reached their targets, the runway also might have been damaged)

What will happen from here on is anyones guess. Mine is that Russia and the Syrian government give up on the Syrian Kurdish areas in the north east who have intentions to break away anyway and ‘invite’ terrorist patron Erdogan who would eagerly step in to pit it against US strategic interests. Russia and the Syrian government dig in in Homs and try to make it throught the next FUKUS supported Al Qaeda season. Either way, US talk remains very belicose and Russia’s position has been shaken. Without a significant response, Putin is seen as weak.

It’s awful. Michael Moore is bitching that Trump “tipped off the Russians” … and that he’s conning everyone again … but no condemnation of the use of force … man’s been utterly coopted like Democracy Now and their exaggerated “horror” over this exceedingly murky incident (while Yemen continues its starvation death march). One site interviewed Syrian refugees admitted to and now living in the United States … y’think Assad supporters passed the “extreme vetting”?

The Democrats need to sober up fast … If Trump is “smart” (and he’s obviously not), he’ll adopt as much of Clinton’s prior proposals as he can and press the point … Clinton has apparently moved onto Trump’s refugee policy. She in Texas …

It’s like a nightmare out of Alice in Wonderland, the Tea Party maybe, with everyone nodding and looking thoughtful as the babbling idiots hold forth.

@31 you mean you are buying Trump Putin false flag conspiracy in this case but not in case of elections?
I buy neither of those, I say one can always count on US imperial arrogance and hubris especially now under Trump blackmailed by CIA. Also one can count on technical failures and ad hoc solutions to mitigate the threat that were found by Russians in this case. Otherwise why would they suspend de-conflicting agreement if it worked OK especially after attack in Deir Ezzor last year.

Simplest explanation alway tends to be the more correct than complicated one.

It does seem that US establishment got Trump where they want him. It doesnt really matter if they have something on him or just broke him through pressure – in either way he is playing ball now. War on ISIS slides to the background, regime change in on, as well as Balkanization of Syria.

Reuters headlines
U.S. strikes destroyed Syrian means to deliver chemical weapons: admiralhttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKBN17A0QD
“U.S. Navy Admiral Michelle Howard said on Saturday U.S. cruise missile strikes on an air base in Syria had destroyed the means to deliver chemical weapons from that base, and the U.S. military remained ready to carry out further strikes if needed.

Howard, the four-star officer who leads U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa, told Reuters the United States had decided to launch the strikes after the United Nations failed to pass a resolution condemning a deadly chemical weapons attack that killed scores of people in rebel-held Khan Sheikhoun.”

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Syria will be memory holed, this issue was tried and proven to be a tar baby for Trump. The core of his voters are solidly pro-Assad. All attention will be switched to North Korea now, since on that subject there is a near-consensus in America. The Syrian salvo was in any case aimed at the Chinese more than the Russians. Timing says it all.

All that free support prior to election, all that unpaid manpower that poured negative energy all over Hillary for a year, all those unpaid meme hours. TheShadowBrokers efforts at humour inside their smashed English surprisingly enjoyable…captures the mood perfectly. #MAGA #MakeAlqaedaGreatAgain

In fact I was earlier thinking that the missile attack may have been an assymetrical response to the latest North Korean missile launch for whom the US had created another idiotic red line recently. Compare it to the US invasion of Granada 2 days after it lost 241 soldiers at once in Lebanon. If it really was an assymetrical response it would proove again the longstanding deterence power of nuclear weapons.

Posted by: xor | Apr 8, 2017 5:33:07 PM | 47
Asymmetric response to my boss yelling at me and giving me hard time would be to slash tires of his car.
Taking a piss on the car belonging to a coworker I dislike for other, unrelated reasons would be idiotic and cowardly, not asymmetric.

@16 b – you’re right, the writing in that Shadowbrokers article is amazing.

@32 cdrake – I hope you know I sincerely like your comments, I love your poetry, truly. But go read that Shadowbrokers piece. Wow, that’s some great writing. Also, I notice Charles Drake shows up when the situation is most grim, as you did in the last thread. It’s kind of like Dylan going electric when the US started bombing Cambodia. I know it’s serious when you show up – and I appreciate the catharsis.

So this is what a multi-polar world feels like. Everything is asymmetrical. Trump cruises Syria, so Shadowbrokers releases the NSA tools. You push something down over here, something different pops up over there.

By the way did anyone catch Maria Zakharova on Russian national TV explaining that the US mainstream journalists were calling her to find out what was going on, and what was Washington’s policy? Surely that’s a milestone – calling Moscow to find out what Washington is doing. Inessa S has a translation on Fort Russ which I’m not sure if I can link, but the direct Vimeo link (8-min clip) is here: https://vimeo.com/212397958

If you evaluate the policies, not the noise/theatre, he’s establishment: austerity for the people, tax cuts and deregulation for the corporations including the mega transnationals. The infrastructure will prove to be the parts of it important to the oligarchs. Due to tax cuts the govt won’t end up owning the new infrastructure– the oligarchs will.

Oligarchs & govts of the main countries have long-since been co-opted into the globalist plan. This includes Europe, Russia & China. The fake theater of conflict between them is for domestic consumption– ours & theirs. Purpose of Russian intervention in Syria was to further this lie & to prolong the war, which Russia has several times avoided winning. Prolongation more thoroughly destroys Syria and destabilizes Europe via “refugees.” Globalism must destroy the nationstates. Never forget that the UN is controlled by the oligarchs.

With the missile strikes against Syria, Trump has put himself in a position where he can be impeached without a leg to stand on. By all accounts he has broken both US and international law. He is now owned by whoever has the numbers to impeach or block an impeachment. The whoever is the warmongers. They have the numbers and political party means nothing.
US strike force now moving towards the Korean peninsular according to Reuters.
In Syria the US had fig leaf of legality riding on the UNSC ISIS resolution. Now that they have attacked Syrian government, they do not have a fig leaf of legality.
Russian mod announcement when new air defence systems are installed will be interesting.
China no doubt putting something in place for North Korea now.
Lots of surprises in store for the US over the coming weeks I think.

The Tillerson comment concerning the unchanged military situation (in other words they will no longer require Bashar’s removal)shows the whole scenario was a PR stunt to make Trump look strong against Russia. As to whether he responded to an unplanned event, or whether it was planned – IMO it is too close to call.

either way Tillerson is looking for a deal with the Russians. and that is good.
But now Donbass is emboldened to do something stupid and if Trump uses the same approach we are all in a pile of shit cause I do not see Russia restraining itself in that theatre if the plug is pulled.

Jared Kushner is closer to Netanyahu than Trump, and so is Clinton (who announced the airstrikes before they came). Historically, Syria was the number one country with the ability to reach any of Israel’s offenses, so they have been wanting to destroy any Syrian capability to even dream of it. So, it is a neo-con/Kushner/Clinton wet dream to service Israel by doing this. Israel does not want Russia helping anyone that could oppose its 100% dominance so it can finish off the Palestinians.

There is no reason why the US would need to fake a chem weapon attack in Syria – do you think they worry when babies die from any other horrific weapon? The US probably sold the sarin to its source. And it is very likely that it was stored in a rebel depot hit by a Syrian air strike. I don’t see why that is too hard to believe. I think it’s credible that the stuff moved north from Libya with lots of other nasty things, and people like Clinton made it happen.

The empire is not falling apart. Clinton is cackling with delight as Trump does everything the Dems want, plus the Dems can point fingers whenever anyone gets offended… which is apparently hard to do to the American public.

“We are in the process of further exploring the disclosed data, and will present any notable revelations in due course, however we find it quite interesting that now that the “rogue” element in the intel community appears to have given up on Trump, they are bypassing the president and taking their war with the “deep state” directly to the people.”

i agree with your analysis of the situation … all except the tee-rump’s being ‘in charge of it all’ bit. tee-rump still doesn’t know what hit him. he has no friends, no group of people who understand the milieu he’s found himself in and who can help him … run things for him. potus. right.

this was all done in background by the ‘intelligence community’ … first the mob set up tee-rump up for it with ‘the russians are coming, and tee-rump helped’ … then they effected the fake ‘gas attack’ in idlib … then they presented tee-rump with the fake ‘cruise missile attack’ as the ‘solution’ to all his ‘problems’.

the speed with which he leapt at the ‘solution’ … tee-rex had just made nice with assad, arm’s length anyway … ‘may’ indicate strong blackmail as stick to the carrot.

tee-rump is their plaything. it’ll be cia ‘fun and games’ from here on in.

russia has cut communications with the us. they know now it goes nowhere, there’s nowhere to go. its just an ‘intelligence’ tap.

tee-rump’s only chance had been to take out the cia at the get-go. maybe they’ve convinced him he’s ‘in charge’ now. of course he has to help – willing suspension of disbelief – on that last one. but, no problem. he’s a show business ‘pro’.

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Chinese would definitely like nothing better than for the Russians to light up those American ships. Chinese love US-Russian animosity, the more the better. For as long as US attention is focused on Russia, China is able to pick American pockets with complete impunity.

Well, maybe this was all a total charade to get the Russia-love-monkey off of Trump’s back. That seems to have worked damn well, right? Besides, everything of military value was likely removed from the Al Syairat base before the attack, right? Mission accomplished? Whenever the post-modernistas begin attacking Trump again, all he has to do is bomb another hollowed-out target. Syria becomes an anti-anti-Trump psyop theater? Could be.

Well its officially ww3 time.
“June 1st or sooner, boots on the ground.” – Multiple sources today, on Syria
Source: “We are spinning up soon”

Trump is now run by globalist scum and the deep state is making him serve their interests. He will invade Syria and Russia will either puss out, losing all international credability and status as a military threat, or they will protect assad leading to ww3. Nice knowing everyone. Time to get the nuclear fallout shelter ready

Tillerson: “It’s important that we keep our priorities straight. And we believe that the first priority is the defeat of ISIS,”
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We’re hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions.”
The former ExxonMobil chief executive noted that holding such talks would require the participation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime along with its allies.http://www.timesofisrael.com/defeating-is-remains-first-priority-in-syria-tillerson-says/Haley: No Political Solution until Assad Is Out
Though confident there will be a regime change, Haley said the United States has “multiple priorities.
A Syrian regime will happen because “all of the parties (????) are going to see that [Bashar al-]Assad is not the leader” the war-torn nation needs – but his ouster isn’t the only U.S. priority, says Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

“So what we’re trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS,” she said. “Secondly, we don’t see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there. Thirdly, get the Iranian influence out, and then, finally, move towards a political solution, because at the end of the day, this is a complicated situation.”